Handy Andy.
Elsie Venner.
Challenge of Barletta.
Betrothed (Manzoni's).
Jane Eyre.
Counterparts.
Charles Auchester.
Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Tom Brown at Oxford.
Lady Lee's Widowhood.
Horseshoe Robinson.
Pilot.
Spy.
Last of the Mohicans.
My Novel.
On the Heights.
Bleak House.
Tom Jones.
Three Guardsmen.
Monte Christo.
Les Miserables.
Notre Dame.
Consuelo.
Fadette (Fanchon).
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Woman in White.
Love me little love me long.
Two Years Ago.
Yeast.
Coningsby.
Young Duke.
Hyperion.
Kavanagh.
Bachelor of the Albany.

FOOTNOTES:

[16] The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: a Complete
Encyclopaedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological. By John
Ogilvie, LL.D. New edition. Carefully revised and greatly augmented,
edited by Charles Annandale, M.A. London, 1882-83. 4 vols. Imp. 8vo.

[17] A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, founded mainly on
the materials collected by the Philological Society. Edited by James A.H.
Murray, LL.D., with the assistance of many Scholars and Men of Science.
Oxford, Clarendon Press. Royal 4to.

[18] A second edition appeared in 1871-72.

CHAPTER V.

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

A good collection of bibliographies is indispensable for a public library,
and will also be of great use in a private library when its possessor is a
true lover of books. One of the most valuable catalogues of this class of
books is the "Hand-List of Bibliographies, Classified Catalogues, and
Indexes placed in the Reading Room of the British Museum for Reference"
(1881). It is not intended to give in this chapter anything like a
complete account of these books, as a separate volume would be required to
do justice to them. Here it will be sufficient to indicate some of the
foremost works in the class. The catalogues of some of our chief libraries
are amongst the most valuable of bibliographies for reference. The
Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution is one of the
handsomest ever produced.[19] Unfortunately the cost of production was too
great for the funds of the Institution, and the elaborate Catalogue of
Tracts was discontinued after the letter F.

The London Library being a specially well-selected one, the catalogue
(which is a good example of a short-titled catalogue) is particularly
useful for ready reference.[20]

The Royal Institution Library is very rich in